Cowboys, Jerry Jones up for different kind of trophy 30 years after last Super Bowl
Lots of NFL teams have a trophy case with Lombardi Trophies. Cowboys owner Jerry Jones is eyeing a new kind of hardware after his Netflix docuseries.
The punch line is so glaringly obvious that the jokes are going to practically write themselves. The Dallas Cowboys , who in the 1990s went from the NFL's laughingstock to a dynastic superpower practically overnight and won three Super Bowls in the first seven years of Jerry Jones's ownership, infamously haven't played for a trophy in the 30 years since. They are, however, up for multiple Emmys.
The Netflix docuseries America’s Team: The Gambler and His Cowboys is among the nominees for the 47th Annual Sports Emmy Awards. The fill list of nominees was announced Wednesday by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. The eight-part series, which premiered in August, is up for Outstanding Sports Documentary Series, Outstanding Sports Open/Tease, Outstanding Sports Camera Work, and Outstanding Sports Editing: Long Form.
The #SportsEmmys Nominees for Sports Documentary Series are: - #ALEXvsAROD ( @hbomax @StreamOnMax ) - #AllenIv3rson ( @primevideo ) - America’s Team: The Gambler and His Cowboys ( @netflix ) - Believers: Boston Red Sox ( @espn ) - Cocaine Quarterback: Signal-Caller for the Cartel pic. twitter. com/AXCYD0CSoV — The Emmys (@TheEmmys) March 25, 2026 The HBO Max series In Season with the NFC East, which also featured the Cowboys in a prominent role, has been nominated in the categories of Outstanding Sports Writing: Long Form and Outstanding Music Direction: Sports.
Hall of Famer and former Cowboys quarterback Troy Aikman, who led the team to those three Super Bowl championships mentioned above, is up for Outstanding Sports Personality: Event Analyst. But it's those three nominations for The Gambler that will have Jones beaming from now until the awards are handed out on May 26. Never mind that the entire point of the series was to dwell wistfully on the distant-past successes of the most recognized sports franchise on the planet while simultaneously turning a damning spotlight on the three full decades of mediocrity that have followed.